A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, Second Edition

Although deeply political economic and social the European Reformations of the sixteenth century were at heart religious disputes over core Christian theological issues. Denis Janzs A Reformation Reader is unabashed in its generous selection of key theological and related texts from five distinct Reformation sites. Along with plenty on the late-medieval background the Lutheran Calvinist Radical English and Catholic Reformations are all well-represented here. Janzs selection of more than 100 carefully edited primary documents captures the energy and moment of that tumultuous time. The new edition incorporates a dozen readings by and about women in the Reformation adds a new chapter on Thomas Mntzer and the Peasants War and adds illuminating graphics.